elude
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While eye-popping gains will elude them, even schools that have less exposure can see big gains by more conventional measures.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026
Yet more than four years into this war, victory continues to elude his country.
From BBC • May 7, 2026
High-speed trains, and pretty much any mass transportation improvement, continue to elude the United States, but one can experience them elsewhere.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2026
Answers elude the watchful girl even as Ms. Keegan illuminates each telling detail of the land, of farm life and of adult ways.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 9, 2026
They said that a man who could elude the law as skilfully as Bigger had was “sane and responsible.”
From "Native Son" by Richard Wright
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